Always a Wasp

Recent Posts

Pages: [1] 2 3 ... 10
1
Wasps Rugby Discussion / Re: Ex Wasps signing for new clubs
« Last post by NellyWellyWaspy on Today at 08:49:47 AM »
Thank you for that Neils.  I had been wondering what had happened to Westy and Tom C, and am so pleased to know that it is good news.  While you are wearing a deerstalker hat and clutching a meershaum ....  any info about Jake Super Woolley?  A super bloke.  Think he has retired.

Yes, he retired in early 2022. Pure Sports Medicine posted a video of him on their treatment plan. He still posts lovely pics of him and his missus around the world on holiday. He regularly takes part in fitness style events.

I think he now works at a company called Kefron, as a 'Finance Transformation Specialist', involved in Project Management. Was that what he studied at Cardiff Uni?
2
Wasps Rugby Discussion / Re: Ex Wasps signing for new clubs
« Last post by WonkyWasp on Today at 08:09:08 AM »
Thank you for that Neils.  I had been wondering what had happened to Westy and Tom C, and am so pleased to know that it is good news.  While you are wearing a deerstalker hat and clutching a meershaum ....  any info about Jake Super Woolley?  A super bloke.  Think he has retired.
4
Wasps Rugby Discussion / Re: Wasps update February 2024
« Last post by baldpaul101 on May 15, 2024, 09:13:23 AM »
TBH if 2500 new homes & a 28000 seat stadium this was being proposed on my doorstep without any infrastructure improvements in an area of green belt and terrible traffic with little public transport options I'd be complaining as well!
5

Paul Sackey: I?m hurt rugby has tried to keep up with others ? it needs to rein spending in

Salary cap for Premiership teams will rise to ?6.4 million next season, but former London Irish and Wasps wing says clubs must be cautious
Charlie Morgan, Senior Rugby Writer 14 May 2024 ? 5:03pm


Paul Sackey, the former England wing, has urged the club game to ?rein in? spending and consolidate after a period that has seen two of his old clubs, London Irish and Wasps, go to the wall.

Sackey, who has become the inaugural inductee into Premiership Rugby?s Hall of Fame, presented by Gallagher, is now commercial director at York City FC.

The 44-year-old scored a total of 69 tries in the top flight, putting him 10th on the all-time Premiership list, and won the competition twice with Wasps in 2005 and 2008.

Over the course of last season, Wasps and London Irish were two of three Premiership clubs to fold. Sackey, who holds both of those sides dear, suggested that overambition had been a key factor in those two ?horror stories?.

With the salary cap set to rise again next season from a base of ?5 million to ?6.4 million, he hopes that clubs still cut their cloth according to the resources at their disposal and resist any temptation to overreach.

?I know that Premiership Rugby are trying their hardest to make the product more exciting but, originally, it felt like we had a salary cap for a reason,? he said. ?That was to keep everything running at a certain level and everyone was on the same playing field.

?I think that the salary cap going higher and higher, with the way other sports are paying people, means we?ve had to jump on that bandwagon and pay people certain money because that?s the way things were going. Originally, we had the salary cap because we knew we weren?t as popular as other sports, so we had to rein it in a little bit.

?As a product, I thought we were doing really, really well. The Heineken Cup was really good. But everything evolved and the money that came in was so much that it was half-killing teams. It?s like we have to have billionaire owners now, which is hard work because a lot of them want to be in football because there?s more exposure. I just love the sport so much and I?m hurt because two of my teams are not with us at the moment.

?I?m hurt and there needs to be some sort of a change, or a stance that says: ?We?re not there yet, so we need to rein it in so teams can survive and strive?. It upsets me. I?ve transitioned over to football and I?ve seen the same things, teams striving to be Premier League teams when they can?t and [they] have to understand their level. I think that?s where rugby is at the moment.?

Despite acknowledging that rugby union has been ?lagging behind a bit? on the commercial front, Sackey does enjoy the prominence that wings are afforded in the modern game.

?I?m not going to be sitting here bitter and going: ?In my day it was harder,?? he said. ?Everything evolves, for better or for worse. I?m not bitter about how they?re making more money, that?s just the way it is. We were making more money than the generation before us.

?I believe that wingers are now more involved. Back in the day, the game was a bit more safe and everyone was all about territory. Now, I think they are trying to make it more exciting because they have to. The product has to be more exciting, otherwise there won?t be any eyes on it.?

?I wasn?t a winger that shied away,? Sackey added. ?I liked to get involved, so I think I?d like to play in this era. I think I?d have fun, I think I?d enjoy it. I think I?d score more tries as well.?
6
Wasps Rugby Discussion / Re: Wasps update February 2024
« Last post by Bloke in North Dorset on May 14, 2024, 05:00:14 PM »
It won't happen, or at least not for a very long time because of our insane planning laws.

In this thread you can see how planning law is used to object to applications using every trick in the book.

Quote
The
@BristolCivicSoc
 are a group of NIMBYs opposed to any development in Bristol. When a proposal is not tall, they object citing the housing crisis. When a proposal is tall, it's carbon emissions. A 🧵of their insane objections.

https://x.com/jakesagt/status/1780153316552380476

In a way you have to admire their tenacity and ingenuity.

Edit: I should point out that most of the objections were eventually dismissed, but is shows the lengths people will go to.
7
Wasps Rugby Discussion / Re: Wasps update February 2024
« Last post by baldpaul101 on May 14, 2024, 04:14:34 PM »
Not new, but don't think I've seen this on here:

https://localsportsnews.co.uk/wasps-update-on-stadium-plans-as-85-of-the-public-disagree/

Quote
as part of the Local Plan, the District Council asked the public for their responses and under the option marked MX15 ? Pedlam Place the responses were quite damning for the proposed build. Of the 1,379 people who responded, 1,181 either Disagreed or Strongly Disagreed with the plans. 188 Agreed or Strongly Agreed, whilst 10 remained Neutral.

This means a whopping 85.7% of the public do not want the club or the District Council to allow plans for a new stadium on this site.

Now as we all know, this won't mean it isn't going to happen but its hardly a great way to start a new venture p1ssing off a chunk of the local population!

https://www.beesnotwasps.org/pedham-development-action-required/
Some of the links on this page detail the well thought out responses to the proposal, mainly around traffic & green belt land usage. Its the 2,500 new homes they are really campaigning against, the stadium is more of a side issue.
Personally, I can't see it ever happening, but I guess if a developer pays the council enough it might do...
8
Wasps Rugby Discussion / Re: Just What's Going on at Sixways?
« Last post by Shugs on May 11, 2024, 02:26:45 PM »
I don?t think anyone knows.
9
Wasps Rugby Discussion / Just What's Going on at Sixways?
« Last post by Rossm on May 10, 2024, 09:48:50 PM »
BBC report: Ex-Worcester co-owners upset by new administration

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/articles/c9wz4relrzgo
10
I recall some very shit teams, like Saints circa 2011, or Tigers in their glory years, who offered nothing outside of the set piece. Set piece dominance should earn the right to good ball and the chance  to play rugby. That is the reward.

If you base your whole game on set piece dominance you deserve to lose.  3 points for winning a scrum is a blight on the game. The full points for collapsing one repeatedly on the 5m line, sure.  3 points for a knock on on the half way followed by a ref's guess? Bollocks.
Pages: [1] 2 3 ... 10